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Monday 18 May 2015 - 12:13 Makkah mean time-29-7-1436
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Rome, (IINA) - A homeless Muslim man has been widely hailed as a hero after he dared the heavily polluted River Tiber to rescue a woman who jumped off a bridge in the center of Rome on Saturday.
"I am not a hero," the 32-year-old Sobuj Khalifa, told Italian television TV2000. "God wants us to help everybody."
The story unfolded last Tuesday when Khalifa spotted a woman jumping off a bridge of the River Tiber under which he had found refuge, OnIslam reported.
Video of the rescue shows Khalifa holding on to the woman with one arm and swimming for the riverbank with the other, while rescuers arrive on the scene and people atop the bridge clap and shout "bravo!"
“I saw her fall from the bridge, I thought she was dead,” Khalifa is heard saying in a video shot by passerby which showed the rescue.
“But when I reached her I saw her eyes moving, I thought she could be still alive.”
Italian authorities said the Israeli woman, 55, jumped off the bridge in an apparent suicide attempt.
The unnamed woman was taken to hospital and is in good condition, a spokesman for Italian police in Rome told Haaretz.
Authorities rewarded Khalifa by granting him a permit to stay and work in Italy.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino wrote on his Facebook page that he had spoken to Khalifa to thank him for his "heroic and humane" act.
SM/IINA
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